May 2017 - Posts

I have seen mistakes in business reports, academic papers, and training materials when it comes to displaying and calculating averages. At first I created a sample dataset using sales data for widgets, but after seeing so many graduation posts this month, Read More...

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s new global scale, distributed database as a service that supersedes Azure Document DB. Cosmos is a technology that enables you to create applications that are unimaginable with a single conventional relational database, Read More...

While preparing blog posts last week, the following message appeared in my browser window. I was in the Azure portal when the message appeared. It’s not an error with Azure or the browser. It could happen when using any website or browser. I tried again Read More...

Today at the Preakness horse racing event, Classic Empire dominated and led the race appearing to be the certain winner with Always Dreaming staying a close second and appearing to be a possible contender. At the end, Cloud Computing charged ahead leaving Read More...

Azure uses Role Based Access Control (RBAC), which is something people generally don’t pay at lot of attention to when initially learning how to use the Azure portal. Take a close look at the screen capture shown below. The Delete button is disabled. Read More...

People new to Power BI Desktop have asked me how to create a columnar chart where each column has different colors for different values stacked on top of each other. There’s no reason to be intimidated. Creating such a chart is very simple with only two Read More...

When I worked for Microsoft giving presentations on data platform products, it was a common occurrence to have people tell me that they didn’t know how to use Power BI. This is the first in a series of posts showing how to do simple, useful tasks in Power Read More...

People often ask me about learning how to use Azure SQL Database as well as many other Azure products. If you want to learn, you’ve got to have an Azure account. Get one for free or use your personal or corporate MSDN account. Where I see people struggling Read More...

Visual Studio Code is a free, relatively new (late 2016), open source, cross platform tool for editing code. I like the Git integration. It doesn’t right out of the box support SQL, but it’s easy to add it as shown below. It’s really simple. Click the Read More...